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ALMATY (TCA) — International passenger trains between Urumqi, the main city of China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty will have a shorter route in China starting from September 30, Xinhua news agency reported citing a local railway bureau.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Bishkek has freed a Kyrgyz journalist, Zulpukar Sapanov, who had been sentenced to four years in prison for a book he wrote, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — After years of being condemned by international rights organizations for the use of forced and child labor on cotton fields, the government of Uzbekistan has suddenly abandoned the practice during the ongoing harvesting season. It remains to be seen if the move is irreversible or just a campaign to mend the country’s poor rights record. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The EU Special Representative for Central Asia, Ambassador Peter Burian, visited Kyrgyzstan on 27-29 September.
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ASTANA (TCA) — At a press conference on September 28 on the application of new technologies presented at the recently concluded Expo-2017 in Astana, Deputy Chairperson of KazAgro JSC Gulnaz Atamkulova told about KazAgro’s exposition presenting the application of “green” technologies in agriculture and demonstrating the potential of Kazakhstan in the production of organic products, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ALMATY (TCA) — A two-day regional conference on major trends and developments in the media in Central Asia, entitled #MediaCA, concluded on 28 September in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The conference was supported by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
